An Assortment of unmarked pieces of africano, giallo antico, portasanta, and pavonazzetto, some thick, some thin, some triangles, and a cipollino strip 4.5 wide in the same box. The assemblage suggests a cocciopesto floor enlivened with scraps of various couloured marbles.

Other marble elements

H 17 B 74-43

(3)

Top part of a trapezophorus leg

15.5 x 12.5, 6.8 high socket in top 5 x 3.5

f.g. greyish white marble with quartz veins

H 18 A

(4)

Block with profiled edge

22.vi.77

f.g. greyish white luna

J 19

(4)

Pestle (worn, re-usable as burning stone?)

f.g. slightly decomposing greyish white (luna?)

VIA GABINA MARBLES

Site G13

TT A

(1)

cipollino

1.5

green porphyry

0.6

(strip? 3.5)

red porphyry

1.0

rosso antico

0.6

(strip? 3.5)

1.9

rounded edge

giallo antico

0.6

(strip? 2.8)

lavagna

(strip? 4.8)

greyish white luna

1.0

strip 2.0

1.2

strip 2.3

1.4

strip ?

black/grey granite

1.8

red/purple breccia

2.8

TT A

(2)

giallo antico (2)

0.5/0.8

greyish white luna

1.5

strip 2.3

0.7

triangle 4 x 6 x 7.5

0.7

Strips suggest remnants of veneer from a single context. Range of stones represented suggests Late Roman, even early Medieval period.